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Pranayama to release stress

Breathing right, alleviates hosts of maladies, stress being one of them.  Of late, if you are feeling too stressed out and drained of energy, you might want to check  whether you are breathing right. You should breathe through the nose and not through the mouth.  Nasal breathing has tremendous health benefits - your oxygen intake is increased, the air that your breathe is partially purified  and humidified or rather filtered by the cilia (fine hair) in the nostrils, your lungs will be healthier  and so on and so forth - the advantages are multiple. On the other hand, breathing through the mouth has lots of disadvantages. Have you seen babies breathe? They breathe through the nose in a rhythmic, regular manner. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why they smile a lot and are so happy and stress-free.

Ancient Beauty Remedies From Around The World

The people of the ancient civilizations are known to have the best beauty secrets in the world. Many of today’s beauty companies use some of these secrets to create modern versions and in my case, my grandmother still talks about how things were done when she was my age. Here are some ancient beauty remedies that I’ve found to be really interesting and useful.

Wallowing in self-pity is not pretty

Many of us develop the habit of feeling sorry for ourselves. We find a cause for a personal grievance in every relationship. Both small and big things provoke us. We dwell on difficulties, dangers, tensions, complexities of life and wallow in them. Roman Philosopher and thinker Seneca rightly says, "In thoughts of self-commission, a man will discover no advantage but will rather incline towards deterioration and softening of himself, and with this there will come upon him a growing indifference to his fellowmen." The basis of self-pity thus is selfishness. Women who feel sorry for themselves are seldom sorry for others!

How To Choose The Right Eye Shadow For Your Eye Color

The most important thing to consider when choosing an eye shadow is the color of your eyes. After all, the reason that you’re wearing the eye shadow in the first place is to accent your eyes and bring attention to them. The easiest and most effective way to go about this is to choose colors based on your eye color. Check out these tips.

Kareena Kapoor's beauty crime or a bad beauty habit that very few know about!

Style diva Kareena Kapoor guilty of a beauty crime or a bad beauty habit?     Now she is always impeccably dressed and her makeup is near-perfect most of the time, how could she ever commit a beauty blunder?    Kareena Kapoor flaunting her well-manicured hands and immaculately done nails.   BTW, we are neither talking about a makeup or fashion faux pas nor about any wardrobe malfunction on her part but about her obnoxious nail-biting habit .    Kareena, it seems, has a strange penchant for biting & chewing nails and disfigures them beyond recognition In most of her films, we have often seen her flaunting her beautiful nails while making exaggerated hand gestures, probably to show off !   So it's quite shocking to know when she allegedly revealed in one of her interviews that though she loves brightly colored nails, she simply can't help herself from chewing off her nail paint & biting her nails when stressed out.   Kareena Kap...

Your attitude makes you stylish

There are lots of things, material, emotional, monetary etc, that go into making us a stylish person. But the most important one is, of course, attitude.

Don’t lower air-conditioner temperature beyond 23 degree Celsius

It is one of those hot summer days when it is hot enough to fry eggs on the street, and you end up looking as if you have been sweating in the sauna. Your makeup runs, your hair looks seriously heat challenged and the fatigue that you are experiencing along with that sticky feeling makes you want to run home at the earliest. Undoubtedly, the vagaries of summer have to be dealt with, but there is no reason why you have to wilt with the heat ; so once in the cozy comforts of your room you switch on your air-conditioner and relax. It’s all the more tempting to keep the temperature well below 20 0 C or even 18 0 C. Frigidaire FRA052XT7 5,000 BTU Mini Window Air Conditioner                        Alen Corporation AMS12 Split Air Conditioner With 13.5 SEER Frigidaire FRA052XT7 5,000 BTU Mini Window Air Conditioner (See all Window Air Conditioners )

Getting in and out of a car gracefully

Even before you take note of a beautiful woman's features or other minute details about her, it is her gait , posture and grace that greets you in the first place, whether she is standing, sitting or even climbing stairs for that matter. Now one aspect where most gorgeous women err is when they are getting in and out of a car . Some get in with their heads going in first and the rest of the body follows, while some plonk themselves on the edge first and then drag the body in. Now this looks most ungraceful.